Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

ithaca.com

ithaca.com | Ithaca Times | news, entertainment, arts, restaurants, classifieds, wineries, serving Ithaca and Tompkins County NY.

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

105 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

471 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ithaca.com page load time and found that the first response time was 105 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ithaca.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ithaca.com

105 ms

www.ithaca.com

160 ms

jquery-ui-default.min.css

46 ms

ads.min.css

48 ms

navigation.core.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 288 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Ithaca.com, 38% (109 requests) were made to Bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com and 5% (13 requests) were made to Ums.adtechus.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Rtb-csync.smartadserver.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (40%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Ithaca.com main page is 5.5 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 264.4 kB

  • Original 331.8 kB
  • After minification 269.0 kB
  • After compression 67.4 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 62.7 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 264.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 529.4 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Obviously, Ithaca needs image optimization as it can save up to 529.4 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 991.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 482.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 991.2 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 406.5 kB

  • Original 477.0 kB
  • After minification 418.8 kB
  • After compression 70.5 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Ithaca.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 406.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 168 (63%)

Requests Now

265

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 265 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ithaca. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ithaca.com accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ithaca.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ithaca.com SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ithaca.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Ithaca.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ithaca. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: